Childhood Trauma Movies

It seems innocent enough. Struggling young artist Daniel King is invited by his childhood friend Natasha...

After a brief encounter with another boy at age 11, Ari Wallenmeier is forced to undergo Conversion Therapy. Now 35 years old and “fixed", Ari...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

"Slip" is the story of Sarah, a young woman who witnessed her mother's murder as a child. Now grown, Sarah is haunted by her mother's memory, her...

With his familial bookshop on the verge of bankruptcy, Simon finds himself retreating more and more to his cabin in the woods. After witnessing...

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian...

Connects seven stories of children facing different forms of violence, exploring how unresolved childhood trauma can lead to struggles in adulthood,...

THE FOUL TRUTH charts the story of a young teenager - Thoithoiba (played by Priyakanta Laishram), who is a survivor of male sexual assault. The story...

A bodybuilding fever dream fueled by childhood trauma, food porn and acid techno music.

Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to...

In the aftermath of war, an extraordinary professor brings hope to children haunted by trauma-induced nightmares.

An autobiographical, partly animated, documentary about a filmmaker striving for a better future as a survivor of childhood sexual assault.

A mentally disturbed "Hamburger Killer" stalks the streets murdering unsuspecting fast food diners in this 1978 low budget comedy-horror short.

A young man's rapid descent into madness fueled by memories of a distant past of painful family experiences. Main character Michael Rose believes a...

Charlie Davis is a young woman recently released from a Minnesota psychiatric ward following a suicide attempt. After a move across the country to...

Nore and Jonna meet again by chance in their early twenties and move in together. In conversations, it becomes clear that Nore was never the...

Elena comes back to Ecuador to help her father overcome his illness. She spends most of her time between drugs and alcohol. While visiting her...

This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.

Two sisters try to survive the war by isolating themselves inside the house after their parents have disappeared. Through strange messages and clues,...